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The fish below is known as a fangtooth, a tropical fish found in
the ocean up to 16,000 feet deep. Upon second glance, you will see
a human eye and a chin and realize that you are looking at a very
nice painting on a human head.

The artist is Helena Jordana Skuhrovcov of the Czech Republic.
She is one of several body painters who have joined the protest
against deep-sea bottom trawling in Europe, a campaign sponsored by
LUSH cosmetics and Bloom Association, a marine conservation
group.

Each of the artists involved in the project has painted a
different deep-sea creature to raise awareness about life in the
deep ocean and to call upon European governments to ban deep-sea
bottom trawling.

“The deep ocean is the largest habitat on the planet – teeming
with all kinds of unique marine life including corals and sponges
that live for hundreds to thousands of years. But deep-sea bottom
trawlers are destroying them, dragging giant weighted nets, cables
and steel plates more than 2 tonnes each across the ocean floor to
catch a small number of low value fish…

“A successful ban would represent a momentous historical
milestone in the fight to protect our deep ocean from unnecessary
destruction. Deep-sea bottom trawling is a capital-intensive,
fuel-greedy, subsidy-dependent fishing method that fails to yield
positive economic results while destroying the natural habitat of
European seas.”

The video below shows some of the artists painting their models
during a tour of Europe earlier this month. It drives home the
theme of the anti-trawling campaign, which has been joined by
numerous celebrities, as shown in a “gallery of
support.”

Thanks to Fred Felleman for calling my attention to this
interesting artwork. And, no, I’m not confused about the day of the
week; I just had too much going on yesterday to focus on “Amusing
Monday.”